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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can teachers certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like CaltechX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these exciting new open education undertakings. Universities want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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